Nick Hopkinson
@COPDdoc
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Professor of Respiratory Medicine FRCP #COPD Tobacco control, social justice, lung health 🫁 🚭 #NHS #Blacklivesmatter He/him Born at 323ppm.
London
Joined August 2011
Lung Disease and Social Justice: COPD as a Manifestation of Structural Violence https://t.co/UWHR7xjVW4
@atscommunity @asthmalunguk @ATSBlueEditor /n
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Asthma + Lung UK invite you to a free online COPD webinar! Wed 19 Nov, 6pm. Prof John Hurst: “What does good care look like?” Join at https://t.co/JvIGNVQsoe
@BTSrespiratory @asthmalunguk #RespEd
asthmaandlung.org.uk
We hold regular, online, condition specific webinars that are free to join.
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Tobacco Endgame Report for European Respiratory Society : Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control. #ERSCongress #ERSCongress2025 Download in thread. /n
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Thing is they knew. They know. Everyone knows. War crimes and ethnic cleansing on this scale can hardly be hidden. The only choice left is to lie or keep quiet.
“Blinken raised the prospect that Israel was committing ethnic cleansing to fellow U.S. officials” “Biden officials worried that attaching their names to a recommendation to limit American support for Tel Aviv would hinder their future career prospects” https://t.co/1VFr7QrLf0
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NEW BMJ PIECE: Medicine has NO SAFEGUARD against complicity in Genocide - but should it? Read / share https://t.co/69goEy5H9h
@OborneTweets @GhassanAbuSitt1
@WairimuANderitu
bmj.com
Accountability for human rights must guide every collaboration in medicine and science, write Rubin Minhas and colleagues From Darfur to Tigray to Myanmar, attacks on healthcare have become a weapon...
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Medicine has a responsibility to protect against genocide. Read this @bmj_latest opinion from Rubin Minhas and colleagues #Accountability4HumanRights
https://t.co/aX2f1D6VkN
bmj.com
Accountability for human rights must guide every collaboration in medicine and science, write Rubin Minhas and colleagues From Darfur to Tigray to Myanmar, attacks on healthcare have become a weapon...
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Reducing the harms from ever larger cars. https://t.co/YmDRBFHr16
@bmj_latest @ThoraxBMJ @asthmalunguk
bmj.com
Parking policy, taxation, and regulation could help curb sales and health risks Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) are passenger cars that have a chassis with extra ground clearance and are generally...
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Nice @BBCNews story about successful lung volume reduction surgery for COPD https://t.co/4HN1zoo4QN
@asthmalunguk
bbc.co.uk
Jim Shaylor said the change in his quality of life after the operation was "unbelievable".
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NHS England should be proud of its national inpatient tobacco dependency treatment service & a recently published study in @ThoraxBMJ confirms how this programme is addressing entrenched injustices driven by tobacco. But these services are at risk & we must fight for them
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'Sudan’s war is described as forgotten, but in reality it is tolerated and relegated. Because to reckon with the horror in Sudan is to look into the abyss of regional and global politics.' This week's column https://t.co/mt2D9FIwEw
theguardian.com
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Cigarette filters - the “deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation". https://t.co/ruZsfSbITY
@AshOrgUK @BTSrespiratory @FCTCofficial #RespEd
tobaccotactics.org
Filtered cigarettes have historically been marketed as safer than unfiltered. Evidence shows that they are not less harmful and have increased health risks. The tobacco industry should bear respons...
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Join us on #WorldCOPDDay on 19th November for our first ever online COPD webinar. @ProfHurst will be speaking about how to empower yourself to get the best care for your lung condition. Find out more information here: https://t.co/jIIEhTyn6c
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🌍 Just weeks before the most important governing body meeting for global tobacco control begins in Geneva — the #FCTCCOP11! Thousands of hours of preparation and more than 100 dedicated people are working behind the scenes to support Parties, NGOs, IGOs, and the media —
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Polluter pays tobacco levy briefing. @AshOrgUK @FCTCofficial
https://t.co/Pvfv37OAir
#LungSky #RespEd
ash.org.uk
This briefing outlines how a polluter pays levy on tobacco companies, alongside a cap on manufacturer pricing, could raise up to £700 million annually to support smoking cessation and wider public...
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"Three values have animated my work - truth, justice and hope." Michael Marmot.
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Come now, can we please focus on the REAL racism such as how there aren't sufficient white faces in advertising?
Racism towards nurses has hit a 'crisis point' in the UK. That's the stark warning from the nursing and midwifery regulator. It comes as a report from the Nurses' Union finds that incidents of racism have increased by 55% in the last three years. But with many too scared to
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The Belgrade Declaration on Tobacco Taxation and Competitiveness affirms that effective tobacco taxation is one of Europe’s highest‑impact, evidence‑based policies. https://t.co/vZVnQozvuB
@AshOrgUK @AshOrg @FCTCofficial
ensp.network
At the 10th European Conference on Tobacco Control, held in Belgrade between 22-24 October 2025, experts from across Europe, including economists, researchers, and public-health advocates, endorsed...
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